Man Utd 1-0 AS Roma

It is very sad to say that AS Roma has been defeated by Manchester United at Old Trafford by a single goal to nil.

It has been known all along that Old Trafford is a very tough cauldron to win matches in due to the intimidating atmosphere that the stadium brings, even when the stadium is empty, the intimidating elements are still there.

This intimidating atmosphere was proven just before the match when Alexandre Doni, AS Roma’s first choice goalkeeper was “taken ill” prior to the match and had to be replaced by Gianluca Curci, a young goalkeeper who is dubbed as the next Gianluigi Buffon. Doni was ill perhaps due to his traumatic experience in the same stadium five months ago when he let in no lesser than seven goals.

Actually, as a fan, I always prefer Curci to be the first choice goalkeeper for Roma. The quality he possesses is obvious for all to see and putting him on the bench for every match is not doing anything good to his development and he might even lose his potential to be the next Gianluigi Buffon. It is very sad to see the number of young goalkeeper with immense potential being left to rot on the bench. Two other examples are Libis Andres Arenas who is rotting in Lazio as well as Oscar Ustari who is warming the bench in Getafe.

For the match of Man Utd vs Roma itself, the winning goal was scored by Wayne Rooney at the 70^th minute to prevent Roma from taking back anything from their visit to Manchester.

Even if Roma is defeated, this does not mean that their chance of progressing to the next round of the competition is hampered. There are many other matches to be played in the group stage of the Chsmpions League.

Forza Roma!